Creating Excel files on Linux

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Maan M. Hamze wrote:

> Ignacio
> My question was the following:
> Can Staroffice create XLS files?  Yes or no!
> As to the 'poetics' of what I meant by 'XLS language', it was a metaphor and
> my answer to this issue appears in my answer to Oleg in that very same
> thread:  the language of XLS is the language that the office secretaries and
> managers and editors and a host of other million people understand.
> Figuratively that is - not as a computer programming language.
> Maan

I understand that. I was simply explaining that Microsoft has made it
inordinately difficult to deal with Excel (Word, Access, etc.) files
programmatically.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>